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ABSTRACT While the world transformed into a single and large market with globalization, this transformation changed consumer trends and expectations. Businesses have to follow consumer trends and expectation for keeping under control and keeping up to this change. Therefore, It is important to determine which factors are influential in consumers’ purchasing behavior. Among these factors consumer ethnocentrism and country of origin effect concepts are the subject of this study. Country of Origin effect is the positive or negative effect about product’s country on the consumer’s eye. Consumer ethnocentrism is a concept that refer to consumer who prefer own country’s product because of emotion such as nationalism and patriotism. This concept also describes consumer's thinking that purchasing products in foreign countries is immoral. In this study, consumer ethnocentrism and the country of origin effect on purchasing behaviors of students having foreign nationality and Turkish nationality tested and compared with the chosen sample. Study findings revealed that there are statistically significant differences between consumer ethnocentrism level of foreign nationality and Turkish nationality but there are not statistically significant differences in country of origin effect between these groups. Another subject of study is the country of origin effect and the level of consumer ethnocentrism on the consumers’ preference for domestic food product. According to the findings, consumer ethnocentrism level affect consumers' preference of food products but there is no effect on country of origin. It is aimed that the findings obtained from this study will contribute to literature and at the same time contribute the decisions that will be taken by the businesses for marketing and the strategies that they will create. Keywords: Country of Origin Effect, Consumer Ethnosentrism, Purchase Decision JEL Codes: M31

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